Asato began her career as a photographer working as an apprentice under Kiyoshi Kurosawa during de fiwming of Barren Iwwusions in 1999[1]. A few years water she worked under Hiroshi Takahashi as an assistant director on de production of Sodom de Kiwwer (2004). It was after dis time Asato began directing her own fiwms, mostwy contributing to awready weww-known horror franchises. In 2011, she entered her most successfuw and active phase of fiwm-making, continuouswy reweasing seqwews and feature fiwms.[1]

Asato’s second feature fiwm, reweased in 2012, is based on an award-winning novew by Hojo Haruka in 2010 which won best Japanese Horror novew of de year. Noted for its near aww-femawe production team and cast, Biwocation is a revowution to de doppewgänger genre. Directed by a women and starring a femawe wead, as weww as being an adaptation drawing from de works of Hojo, de femawe-audored Biwocation distinguished itsewf from de mawe-dominated genre[2].

Composed on de basis Freudian demes of human desire, Biwocation or ‘de state of being in two pwaces simuwtaneouswy’ is de overriding deme of de fiwm. Starring a veteran of Japanese horror (Asami Mizukawa) de fiwm draws muwtipwe hidden parawwews to doppewgänger tropes and rewigion (specificawwy de story of Cain and Abew in de Book of Genesis)[2].

The story is comparabwe to Ardur Miwwers’ pway The Crucibwe (1953) on de Sawem Witch Triaws. Reminiscent of de Miwwerian study of de vuwnerabiwity of young minds to become cwouded to unreawistic fears[4].

The fiwm often references John Everett Miwwais’s famous painting Ophewia, de mid-Victorian piece in which Shakespeare’s famous character Ophewia, from his pway Hamwet, drowns hersewf in a stream due to madness. Asato's stywe is directwy referencing de eerie beauty of Ophewia’s corpse fwoating in de river. She has been referred to as creating an ‘Ophewia’ worwd in ruraw Japan[4].

Smaww section dat speaks about Joyce Borenstein's parents and members of de (ASIFA), perhaps unnecessary and off topic.

Borenstein's fiwms are noted but underrepresented; dey are de basis of her character but are not referenced anymore dan a simpwe mention, uh-hah-hah-hah. What was her fiwm stywe (if she had one)? Though de articwe does weww define her major accompwishments and deir specific meaning in her wife.

References, specificawwy from 'de 65f Oscar awards' awdough precedent in her accompwishments, is rewiabwe but biased since her fiwm was a bof nominated and won an Oscar, dey are not incwined to say anyding against de fiwm. No referraw to any diswike of her fiwms or down moments in her wife, de page recawws onwy her accompwishments. Were dere any fiwms dat were not received weww or were oderwise unsuccessfuw?

Tawk page has onwy one conversation about de use of rewiabwe sources and weww-defined page structure. Some criticism of 'hard to read' sections and 'tweaking' of headings.

We discussed de use of Wikipedia to be a neutraw, weww presented and rewiabwe source of information about a singwe subject. Tihs articwe has bof rewiabwe sources and citations as weww as working winks, however, de introduction is a wittwe wong and de main contents contain some unneeded or distracting information, uh-hah-hah-hah.